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Displaced and damned for a generation -Alok Deshpande

-The Hindu Koynanagar (Maharashtra): First, a dam, then an earthquake and finally a Tiger Reserve — families in Satara district’s Koyna have been displaced thrice in one generation. In 1960, the people had to move, paving the way for the Koyna dam; in 1967 following the earthquake and then for the Koyna Tiger Reserve in 1985, says Jagannath Vibhute, an activist of the Shramik Mukti Dal and one of the many...

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N-E tribals pick up guns to oppose Tiger Reserve

-The Hindustan Times From joblessness to lack of development, militants in the northeast have fought for several causes over the years. Here’s the latest reason they’re picking up guns — dislike for a proposed Tiger Reserve. A tribal community in central Assam’s Karbi Anglong district has floated a militant outfit to oppose the creation of  the reserve. The outfit has taken shape among Rengmas, a Naga tribe. The Council of Naga Rengma...

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Trapped in depression -Sharmistha Chowdhury

-The Hindu A recent survey in the Sunderbans region of West Bengal reveals an alarming trend of rising mental health problem among women Everyday, when Badal, a sturdy young man of Sunderbans returns home at dusk, he finds his mother, Kamala, sitting placidly in the verandah, staring into the distance with strangely unseeing eyes. The house, otherwise, is abuzz with activity. His daughter is bringing in the cows, his sons are clamouring...

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Spoon-feeding Melghat -KumKum Dasgupta

-The Hindustan Times Melghat is an incredibly beautiful place — especially, if you visit the forest-rich area after a robust monsoon (like I did). The weather was cool, the sky pale azure and the spectacular cliff-and-ravine landscape green. But this gem of a place, 750 kilometres northeast of Mumbai in Maharashtra’s Amravati district, has an ugly side story: hunger and malnutrition have been killing tribal children and women here for years....

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